8-letter words that end in on
- cohesion — If there is cohesion within a society, organization, or group, the different members fit together well and form a united whole.
- colation — The act of straining or filtering; filtration.
- colophon — a publisher's emblem on a book
- conation — the element in psychological processes that tends towards activity or change and appears as desire, volition, and striving
- coolamon — a shallow dish of wood or bark, used for carrying water
- cooption — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- copatron — a fellow patron
- copperon — cupferron.
- cotillon — cotillion.
- count on — If you count on something or count upon it, you expect it to happen and include it in your plans.
- crack on — If you crack on with something, you continue doing it, especially with more effort than before, or as quickly as possible.
- crampoon — Alternative form of crampon (attachment for a shoe).
- cranston — city in R.I.: suburb of Providence: pop. 79,000
- creation — In many religions, creation is the making of the universe, Earth, and creatures by God.
- crichton — James. 1560–82, Scottish scholar and writer, called the Admirable Crichton because of his talents
- crim con — criminal conversation
- crompton — Richmal, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn. 1890–1969, British children's author, best known for her Just William stories
- cryotron — a miniature switch working at the temperature of liquid helium and depending for its action on the production and destruction of superconducting properties in the conductor
- curation — Chiefly British. a member of the clergy employed to assist a rector or vicar.
- cymation — cymatium.
- cytozoon — a parasite, especially a protozoon, living within a cell.
- d region — the lowest region of the ionosphere, extending from a height of about 60 kilometres to about 90 kilometres: contains a low concentration of free electrons and reflects low-frequency radio waves
- davidson — Jo(seph)1883-1952; U.S. sculptor
- davisson — Clinton Joseph. 1881–1958, US physicist, noted for his discovery of electron diffraction; shared the Nobel prize for physics in 1937
- debation — Debating.
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- decurion — a local councillor
- dedition — (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
- defusion — separation of the life instinct from the death instinct, a process often accompanying maturity.
- deighton — Len. born 1929, British thriller writer. His books include The Ipcress File (1962), Bomber (1970), and the trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match (1983–85)
- delation — Chiefly Scot. to inform against; denounce or accuse.
- deletion — the act of deleting or fact of being deleted
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- demotion — to reduce to a lower grade, rank, class, or position (opposed to promote): They demoted the careless waiter to busboy.
- deration — to end rationing of (food, petrol, etc)
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- desition — An end, ending or conclusion.
- deuotion — Obsolete spelling of devotion.
- deuteron — the nucleus of a deuterium atom, consisting of one proton and one neutron
- devision — Obsolete spelling of division.
- devotion — Devotion is great love, affection, or admiration for someone.
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- diazinon — a type of strong insecticide
- dication — (chemistry) Any cation, of general formula X2+, formed by the removal of two electrons from a neutral species.
- dies non — a day on which no courts can be held.
- digitron — a type of tube, for displaying information, having a common anode and several cathodes shaped in the form of characters, which can be lit by a glow discharge
- dihedron — a figure formed by two intersecting planes.
- dilation — the act of dilating; state of being dilated.
- dilution — the act of diluting or the state of being diluted.
- diluvion — a coarse surficial deposit formerly attributed to a general deluge but now regarded as glacial drift.